A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.